KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Judges 9:45–49
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Judges 9:45
45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
45And Abimelech fought against the citie all that day, and he tooke the citie, and slewe the people that was therein, and beat downe the citie, and sowed it with salt.
Judges 9:46
46¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
46¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entred into an holde of the house of the god Berith.
Judges 9:47
47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the towre of Shechem were gathered together.
Judges 9:48
48And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
48And Abimelech gate him vp to mount Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him, & Abimelech tooke an axe in his hand, and cut downe a bough from the trees, and tooke it, and laide it on his shoulder, and said vnto the people that were with him, What ye haue seene †me doe, make haste, and doe as I haue done.
- Heb. I haue done.
Judges 9:49
49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
49And all the people likewise cut downe euery man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the holde, and set the holde on fire vpon them: so that all the men of the towre of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 9:45
Contended in battle, conflict, struggle, or opposition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Scattered on ground, as seed; sprinkled with seed, as ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A mineral substance used for seasoning and preservation; figuratively, a preserving or purifying influence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Judges 9:46
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 9:47
To tell: to say, relate, inform, count, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Judges 9:48
A mountain or hill; as a verb, to ascend or rise.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument; figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The branch of a tree; applied to a branch of size, not to a small shoot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The upper joint of the arm; figuratively, a place of bearing, support, or responsibility.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Speed or urgency in action; as a verb, to hurry or act quickly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Performed; executed; finished; a word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 9:49
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In like manner; also or similarly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument; figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The branch of a tree; applied to a branch of size, not to a small shoot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Flame and burning heat; figuratively, fiery trial, judgment, zeal, or anger; to kindle or burn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 45
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Open the full verse study25And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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Open the full verse study23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
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Open the full verse study25¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
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Open the full verse study11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
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Open the full verse study13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
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Open the full verse study34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
From verse 46
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Open the full verse study33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
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Open the full verse study4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
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Open the full verse study8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
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Open the full verse study26And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
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Open the full verse study2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
3But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
4Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
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Open the full verse study15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18¶ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
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Open the full verse study38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
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Open the full verse study27And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
From verse 48
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Open the full verse study14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
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Open the full verse study17And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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Open the full verse study11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
From verse 49
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Open the full verse study15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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Open the full verse study16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
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Open the full verse study15And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
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Open the full verse study20But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
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